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Issue 278 -October
21, 2005 |
Copyright Office Issues Interim Regulations on Preregistration
The Copyright Office has issued interim regulations governing preregistration
of works being prepared for commercial distribution. Preregistration will
be available, by means of applications made online on the Copyright Office
website, www.copyright.gov, commencing November 15. The Register of Copyrights
has determined that preregistration will be available for the following
classes of works: motion pictures, sound recordings, musical compositions,
literary works being prepared for publication in book form, computer programs
(including videogames), and advertising or marketing photographs. To be
eligible for preregistration, a work must be in one of these classes and
applicant must certify that the work is being prepared for commercial distribution
and that he or she has a reasonable expectation that the work will be commercially
distributed to the public. (Read further information.)
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November 15 |
Preregistration will be available, by means of applications
made online on the Copyright Office website |
December 1 |
Due date for comments on 1201(a)(1) rulemaking (more) |
February 2,
2006 |
Due date for reply comments on 1201(a)(1) rulemaking
(more) |
March 1 |
Due date for payment of cable royalties for the accounting
period beginning on July 1, 2005, and ending on December 31, 2005 (more) |
March 29 and
31,
and April 3 and 4, 2006 |
Tentative dates for Washington, D.C., hearings on
1201(a)(1) rulemaking (more) |
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